I always thought it was a man at the gallows, not someone killing themselves.
Yeah, I thought the implication was that in the lore of whatever pretend reality the game takes place in, the penalty for losing the game is getting executed by hanging
I never thought that deeply about the game but I had some teachers who would rather draw a house or something instead of the hanging man
If you can’t guess the word, you will be saddled with a hefty mortgage that has an unreasonable interest rate.
Oh jeeze that is worse.
I played Hangaroo when I was little so the penalty was not even done to me lol
Some people do a very thorough job.
“Jim killed himself.”
“My, god. How?”
“He constructed his own gallows, complete with support to ensure his weight wouldn’t bow or split the noose beam, and dangled above the well crafted platform.”
“Wow. That’s Jim to a T.”
“Yes. Tragically a T would have prevented all of this.”
In the Bible, there are two accounts of the death of Judas. In one, he hangs himself. In another, he goes out into his field and his guts spill out and he dies.
And I had a Christian tell me that first he hanged himself and then his guts spilled out and then he died.
So apparently, he went out into a field, built a gallows, tested the gallows, hung himself from the gallows, didn’t die, so God had to complete the job by making his guts spill out and not, I don’t know, break his neck?
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
…did they spill out of his butt?
You want to wreck someone at hangman? Choose “jazz”. Getting “A” as the second letter is no help at all, and “J” and “Z” are the last letters anyone guesses.
Or worse. Jazzy.
I still remember getting that in Wordle. I think I stopped playing after that.
Play hangman in a language with more letters. For example, the Russian alphabet has 33 letters, Hindi has 50 and Khmer - 74.
Me: “Ah you give up? You got the last letter! Ok here…”
Мой друг: “What the fuck is a пиздес?!”
You are devious and evil.
I like you.
Oxidize is also a good word to wreck someone at hangman.
“Hymn”
You basically lose just guessing the 5 vowels
The dumber you are, the more people you hang.
My fave games as a kid were both pretty macabre; “Voice of the Mummy” and “Seance,” they were both Milton Bradley games that came with a built-in record player and both had kind of creepy themes. In Voice of the Mummy you slowly climb up a pyramid collection jewels and doing what the record player commands, like “take one more jewel if you’ve ever tasted human blood.” Great stuff for an imaginative kid!
